Cambridge, United Kingdom

English Literature

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Students on this course study a diverse range of texts, genres and movements from English literary history, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon period through to works of contemporary authors. You will analyse the way in which forms and traditions have evolved, as well as studying the theory and practice of writing, reading and criticism. You will analyse the ways in which writers have written profoundly about, and been influenced by, their experiences, societies and times, and how their works have contributed to human culture and understanding. The study of English Literature, therefore, has an exciting interdisciplinary element which can incorporate, for example, aspects of history, philosophy, linguistics, theology and cultural studies.
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English
English usually refers to:
English Literature
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States. However, until the early 19th century, it only deals with the literature of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It does not include literature written in the other languages of Britain.
Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.
Literature
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
Hugh Blair, p. 386.
Literature
* * * A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, On Sir William Temple.
Literature
We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Volume I, p. 23.
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